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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Alina Lobzina |Milana Mazaeva
He has struggled to make sense of the cognitive dissonance as the Trump administration went to what he called heroic lengths to help free Mr. Kuznechyk while simultaneously eviscerating his employer. On a recent day, Mr. Capus arrived at the organization's headquarters in Prague to find that officials in Washington had cut the satellite feed carrying Current Time, a joint project with Voice of America.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Neil MacFarquhar |Milana Mazaeva
"Las cárceles rusas son de los lugares más horribles del mundo", dijo en una entrevista. "Las condiciones son terribles. Normalmente, la gente elige la guerra porque en la cárcel no eres nadie, no tienes derechos. En la guerra, al menos puedes hacer algo, tomar algunas decisiones". Otra fuente de voluntarios han sido los políticos y empleados estatales encarcelados por cargos de corrupción.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Neil MacFarquhar |Milana Mazaeva
Another source of volunteers has been politicians and state employees jailed on corruption charges. In Vladivostok, the largest Russian city on the Pacific Ocean, two former mayors as well as the director of municipal funeral services, plus several regional officials, have all announced that they want to serve in exchange for getting out of jail. Oleg Gumenyuk, the mayor from 2018 to 2021, was convicted on bribery charges, as was his predecessor, Igor Pushkarev, mayor from 2008 to 2017.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Milana Mazaeva |Ivan Nechepurenko
Officials from three countries - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia - have opened investigations into the cause of the crash. An image of Subhonkul Rakhimov recording a video while saying prayers inside the damaged Azerbaijan Airlines plane on the flight from Baku to Grozny, Russia, on Wednesday. Credit...
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Milana Mazaeva |Alan Yuhas
The 12 Best Post-Apocalyptic Movies We’ve Ever SeenThese are the 13 best post-apocalyptic movies we’ve ever seen. How accurate are they? We hope we never find out.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Neil MacFarquhar |Milana Mazaeva
There are large signing bonuses, fat monthly salaries and what Russians call 'coffin money,' a substantial payment to the families of the tens of thousands of soldiers killed in battle Neil MacFarquhar, Milana Mazaeva New York Published 03.11.24, 06:26 AM A picture released by the Russian defence ministry on Thursday shows Russian soldiers patrolling a village in the border region of Kursk AP Expensive new cars and motorcycles crowd the streets.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Neil MacFarquhar |Milana Mazaeva
Expensive new cars and motorcycles crowd the streets. Apartment prices have more than doubled. And once-strapped residents are suddenly seen wearing fur coats and carrying ostentatiously overflowing grocery bags. That is how one resident of a small, long-impoverished industrial city in Siberia describes her hometown these days.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Neil MacFarquhar |Milana Mazaeva
[Estamos en WhatsApp. Empieza a seguirnos ahora] De adolescente, Pavel Kushnir logró una codiciada plaza en el Conservatorio Chaikovski de Moscú, que tiene el programa de formación de pianistas más prestigioso de Rusia. Sus compañeros de clase lo recuerdan como un introvertido tímido y extravagante que no solo dominaba la música clásica, sino también el cine, la literatura y la pintura.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Neil MacFarquhar |Milana Mazaeva
As a teenager, Pavel Kushnir won a coveted spot in Russia's most prestigious training program for pianists at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. His classmates remember him as a shy, quirky introvert with fluency in not just classical music, but in film, literature and painting. He made a career playing for provincial orchestras, while on the side he wrote startling avant-garde novels, mostly unpublished. Long a critic of President Vladimir V.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Neil MacFarquhar |Milana Mazaeva
When Ukrainian troops poured into Russia on August 6, Moscow was caught unawares. Suddenly, the war had come to the conscripts, who were manning lightly guarded positions near the border Neil MacFarquhar, Milana Mazaeva New York Published 01.09.24, 10:50 AM Representational image File image For more than two decades it has been standard practice in Russia: New conscripts doing mandatory military service have not been deployed on the front lines.
